My blog has moved

I won’t be making any updates to this blog anymore. I finally setup my own domain for my blog and I will be updating my blog there.
The url is http://www.techy-talk.com
Now I can play around with plug-ins, change themes and all sorts of things. Yay!!.

Comparing Gmail Tasks and Remember the Milk Gmail Widget

Today I read Gmail added a Tasks module from TechCrunch, finally. It’s not part of standard Gmail yet, you have to turn it on in the Labs section of your Gmail account. Go to Settings -> Labs and find Tasks.
Before this was released I used the Remember the Milk Widget in Gmail for my tasks [...]

Social Media and ROI

Social media seems to be getting a lot of attention lately, and today I came across an article from Social Media Today on the measurement of ROI.
The article is http://www.socialmediatoday.com/SMC/57710
The article mentions how you would actually measure ROI based on various social networks like Linke-In, Twitter and others.

Browsers now knows where you are, through Mozilla Geode

Just read up on the news today and Mozilla released a Geode plugin in Firefox 3. Basically it’s a plugin that allows you to give your specific location to the browser, which is then passed on to the website and the website will give content specific to your location.
Here is the url http://labs.mozilla.com/2008/10/introducing-geode/
This would be [...]

How to open .EML file in Vista

.EML file is a email message file used by Outlook express. It doesn’t open in Microsoft Office Outlook. In Vista, Outlook Express is no longer part of the installation, instead it is replaced with Windows Mail.
To Open .EML file, go to the folder where the file is in, right click on the file, and then [...]

The Four Hundred Hour Workweek

An interesting and sarcastic article by Robert Bruce on the four hundred hour week. It does make us take a look at what is happening in the technology sphere, where outsourcing to other countries for development is becoming more and more common, despite the massive cultures difference and language barrier.
http://www.knifegunpen.com/the-four-hundred-hour-workweek/

The Google Song

We’ve all said this before when someone ask you a question, “Just google it”. Now this is a song about Google to go with that.

Good article on .Net page cycle and view state

This article here has a really good explaination about .Net page cycle, how the different functions are called and their sequences, like preinet, init, pageload and so on.
Also has some explanation about viewstates.
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/aspnet/aspnetviewstatepagecycle.aspx

Blogging, it’s actually good for your well being?

I blog for a very good reason, to share my ideas and issues I have resolved so it can help others, but apparently I am also improving my own well being and making my self a happier person in general as well.
In this article here from Mike Sachoff at WebProNews, he explains based on two [...]

Blog for me?

I didn’t really thing about starting a blog until reading the company blog today, and seeing the interesting things that has been said. And I didn’t think that I would have time to blog lately, with all the work that has been going on lately, I don’t even have the energy to sit and talk [...]